Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SENATOBIA – Back at Jim Miles Field after a two-week road swing, Northwest earned a Saturday split with 16th-ranked Mississippi Delta by winning the opener 8-6 and dropping the nightcap 8-7.

Northwest moved to 21-13 overall and 9-7 in the north while Delta moved to 22-14 and 11-7. Northwest also moved to 6-4 against Top 20 teams this year and is now 18-6 in its last 24 against the Trojans.

There was a lot of scoring early in the opener, with Northwest taking a 5-4 lead after three on Kramer Hollenbach's solo home run to left that extended a 29-game reached base streak. 

Delta then pulled ahead 6-5 after six innings before Northwest rallied for three runs in the seventh to pull ahead for good, 8-6. The Rangers loaded the bases with no outs and chased Delta starter Devontae Wilson. Taylor King's RBI-single tied it up before Stephen Sexton's bases-loaded walk and an RBI-single by Hunter Austin capped the three-run frame.

Tanner Cable and Tyler Scholl tossed the final three innings and didn't allow a hit, with Cable improving to 4-2 with the win and Scholl grabbing his third save of the year and eighth of his career. Domenick Carlini scattered nine hits, six runs (four earned) and seven strikeouts in 6 IP in a no-decision.

Northwest out-hit Delta 13-8, led by Austin's 3-for-4 effort. Seven different Rangers had at least one hit. Carson Crites led Delta at the plate by going 3-for-5 with two home runs and a double.

Reminiscent of the awful start in Game 2 at Delta in which the Trojans threw up an 11-spot in the first, the Rangers quickly trailed 4-0 with no outs in the finale after an error and three-run homer by Jason Berry.

Northwest responded with three runs in its half of the first on Tanner Densford's RBI-single and back-to-back sac flies from Chase Clark and T. King.

But Delta regained all the momentum with three more runs in the second that chased starter Cody Waddell after just 1.1 innings pitched. After a passed ball scored pinch-runner Ty Dean, Berry added a two-run double to make it 7-3 Trojans. 

Matt Ferguson tossed four innings of relief and kept the Rangers in striking distance into the sixth inning, scattering four hits, an unearned run and five strikeouts.

Northwest rallied from an 8-4 deficit with two runs on Jay King's RBI-double in the fourth and James Clark's RBI-single in the fifth to make it 8-7 in favor of the Trojans. 

That's as close as Northwest would get, however, as Matt Ray tossed the final 2.1 innings for Delta and allowed just one hit to earn the save. Peyton Callahan was credited with the win. 

Northwest out-hit Delta 13-11 in the Game 2 loss, with the top of the Ranger lineup going 7-for-11 with four RBIs and four runs scored. Hollenbach extended his reached base streak to a whopping 30 games with an infield single in the first, also the 100th hit of his career.   

Northwest hosts Coahoma on Tuesday, April 15 at 3 p.m., a stretch of eight games in seven days.